Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Is it just us, or have you noticed that it must have been laundry week for Carolyn “Little Red” Ryan, who was wearing tweed and lace turtlenecks in this summer heat? O, well. Here you go:
Fireworks can be loud and dangerous
Holly Headache stood outside WLOSer studios on Friday and had her photog light up some fireworks to show us exactly how dangerous they can be. Only the first firework was a smoke bomb that Larry “Gloryhole” Blunt didn’t really get. And the second one took a minute to catch. So Holly started talking, then it went berserk with its loud popping and crackling. It sorta scared Holly, who scooted away, gave a cute giggle, and kept going. O, did we say fireworks are dangerous?
Something about a shooting
Cherub Charu said a man was shot three times in the chest in a parking lot across Carter Street from the La Cama nightclub in downtown Asheville.
We couldn’t really tell what the connection was with La Cama, because Charu said police have not said how the club may be related to the shooting. And the club’s owner said he didn’t think his business had anything to do with the shooting. But that didn’t stop Charu from standing out in front of La Cama to deliver her report.
No drinking on the water
Sheraldo went down to to the Green River in Polk County to tell us that a new state law has passed that will ban drinking alcohol on the river. The law goes into effect Aug. 1.
Right now, your average redneck and your average college co-ed like to load up a cooler, rent an innertube, and proceed to float down the muddy waters while getting stinking drunk. We’ve never really understood the attraction of this exercise, but apparently a lot of people do it.
On owner of a company that rents innertubes said he’s seen all manner of bad behavior. He’s had to drag people out of their tubes and such. We bet he’s got some good stories. Sheraldo interviewed some 20-something who said the new law “sucks,” and all it will mean is that people will drink while driving to the river so they can still be drunk while their floating in their tubes.
Health Headline
Diva Darcel says tennis is good exercise!
Cherokee advertises
Jon “Punnyman” Le told us that Cherokee has spent $1.5 million with the Goss Agency of Ashvegas to advertise. The campaign, that features billboards and lots of television advertising (hmmmmm), features a scary looking American Indian. That was about the essence of the report – that the ad campaign was cool. Le offered no details on the impact – has tourism increased? has the campaign changed visitors’ attitudes about Cherokee? Le didn’t tell us anything.
Cuevas sucks up
In a little happy talk lead-in to a story about the new movie The Devil Wears Prada, Mike Cuevas said, “Now I don’t think this at all, Tom, but if you think your boss is a monster, you haven’t seen the new movie….” Cuevas was referring to station bigshot Tom Loebig. Keep sucking up, Cuevas.
In other news…
Ashvegas police made an arrest in a murder that went down back in January iin the Erskine Street Area… And Jay Seltzerwater told us about a bunch of Stevens-Lee school alumni who were inducted into their hall of fame.
